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HPV vaccine

Submitted by knittingwoman on Wed, 01/31/2007 - 9:14am.

first of all, I would love to believe that vaccines actually infer lifetime immunity but that hasn't always proved to be the case and this is a very new vaccine.
If you are using a condom you aren't going to catch a sexually transmitted disease which is what HPV is. So far, I don't see the need to vaccinate for this. I remember the days when they used to say that you got cervical cancer if you were promiscuous, that there was a connection between multiple partners and this disease.
I caught HPV by having unsafe sex. I had it back before we knew there was a connection between HPV and cervical cancer. I had mild cervical dysplasia that was treated more than 20 years ago.
I want my daughter to have safe sex all the time.

More important that vaccinating against HPV, IMO, is to make sure that all women, from the time they are sexually active need to get regular pap tests done. My husband works in cancer research and he says that main reason that there is a public campaign to vaccinate against HPV is because not all women are getting regular pap tests. Cervical cancer, if detected early by a pap test, is a curable disease. He also says that cervical cancer is a rare response to a common infection. Many young women get HPV, their immune systems deal with it and they never get any cervical anomalies at all.
Another question, men are the ones who carry HPV, they could be vaccinated too or instead.

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